The country is pushing to digitally modernize itself, but one of the developed world’s starkest gender gaps is holding it back. | Continue reading
The government is hoping employees hired from the private sector will boost the agency's impact, with an ex-McKinsey manager being given a top post. | Continue reading
The move is the national broadcaster’s most ambitious initiative yet to bring a variety of content to Japan’s deaf population. | Continue reading
Past efforts have stumbled due to insufficient resources and bureaucratic divisions, and an ability to overcome these structural issues will make or break the new agency. | Continue reading
In recent months, the Tokyo-Taipei relationship has grown even closer as Japan became far more vocal in the public sphere about its concerns over China’s assertiveness. | Continue reading
The tunnel will stretch 1 km east from the plant out to sea, releasing the tainted water into an area of the ocean where no fishing rights are in place. | Continue reading
Already on a downward trend, COVID-19-mandated closures are slashing profits and forcing closures of many of the country’s iconic locations. | Continue reading
China, which has called religious extremism a destabilizing force in its western Xinjiang region, must also hews to its policy of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries. | Continue reading
The engine uses shock waves produced by burning a mixture of methane and oxygen gases. | Continue reading
In cram school-obsessed South Korea, students fork out for classes in everything from K-pop auditions to real estate deals. Now, as top Korean firms roll o | Continue reading
Detained members of minority communities appeared to have been forcibly subjected to blood tests and organ examinations such as ultrasound and X-rays, without informed consent. | Continue reading
The propaganda value of a landing on another planet, as the Communist Party prepares to celebrate its centenary, is not lost on Beijing. | Continue reading
The move is in line with what some observers have heralded as a new standard for U.S. officials’ interactions with self-ruled Taiwan amid the United States’ growing rivalry with China. | Continue reading
Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University say the finding might also apply to humans who are in respiratory distress when ventilators are not available or inadequate. | Continue reading
China has taken the lead in becoming a cashless society. | Continue reading
Akasaki was honored in 1997 by the government with the Medal with Purple Ribbon. | Continue reading
Concern among the Japanese public over the virus and the proliferation of more contagious variants led to the decision, say sources. | Continue reading
Iran's blacklisted banking system also means players, with no access to internationally recognized credit cards, need to use fake identities and addresses. | Continue reading
Team plans to culture hair follicles taken from those with male-pattern baldness and then implant the cultured cells back in their heads. | Continue reading
A survey found that in some cases, people continued to experience difficulty breathing, malaise, and a loss of smell four months after they started showing COVID-19 symptoms. | Continue reading
Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultrafast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential. | Continue reading
The move comes amid calls within the Japanese government to join the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing alliance amid growing threats from China and North Korea. | Continue reading
Chinese streaming giant Tencent has stopped live broadcasts of games by the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers in apparent protest at their new president Daryl Morey | Continue reading
At least 3,748 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on Friday, the third consecutive day above 3,000. | Continue reading
Americans shouldn't allow themselves to be conned by big corporations once again. | Continue reading
Taihei Kobayashi's story is among the most remarkable to emerge from a small-cap stock boom that’s minting fortunes. | Continue reading
Japan is seeking to boost its flagging birth rate by funding the use of artificial intelligence to help match lonely hearts, an official said Monday. Altho | Continue reading
Chinese money brokers based in Mexico "have come to dominate international money laundering markets," U.S. prosecutors have said. | Continue reading
Visitors can climb to observation decks from 15 meters to 18 meters high on the Gundam-Dock Tower to have close-up views of the anime icon. | Continue reading
The new coronavirus may remain infectious for weeks on banknotes, glass and other common surfaces, according to research by Australia’s top biosecurity lab | Continue reading
Bars and online communities for nondrinkers are becoming increasingly popular. | Continue reading
To avoid such a lockdown scenario aimed at mitigating climate change, the world must overhaul its economic structures and do capitalism differently. | Continue reading
Defense chief Taro Kono asked the SDF to record any such objects that they encounter or that enter Japanese airspace and to take steps to analyze them. | Continue reading
Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps is about to get a lot easier in Myanmar on Tuesday when it finally adopts the universal code underpinnin | Continue reading
President Vladimir Putin says Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing. | Continue reading
A town in Gunma Prefecture will kick off trials for an autonomous amphibious tour bus this winter as part of a project to foster tourism and facilitate the | Continue reading
The two are expected to protect the free flow of data by not forcing firms to set up servers and other related facilities within their borders. | Continue reading
A row over a photographer's name being trimmed from an image has been in the courts since 2016. | Continue reading
If it pursues a listing, the chip-design company could go public as soon as next year, accelerating a timeline laid out by SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in 2018. | Continue reading
Lithium-based batteries play a central role in the world of technology, but producing them is complicated and they have been the cause of fires. | Continue reading
The U.S.-China rivalry is shifting into new and unpredictable areas, engulfing everything from a popular video app to Hong Kong’s status as a global financ | Continue reading
If anyone is wondering which party will win Singapore’s election on Friday, just listen to the opposition. Pritam Singh, the leader of the country’s only e | Continue reading
In Japan, it's sometimes said that the eyes speak as much as the mouth. Perhaps the proverbial phrase captures the essence of the nation’s affinity for fac | Continue reading
Yamato on Thursday became the first municipality in Japan to attempt to stop people using their smartphones while walking outside in public places. Followi | Continue reading
Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer traditi | Continue reading
The rules allow for limited access to self-driving technology, but still require drivers to pay attention and retain a level of control. | Continue reading
Cyber capabilities are much less expensive to develop and easier to acquire than traditional warfare — and can be just as destructive. | Continue reading
The documents show that a powerful group of insiders viewed his detention and prosecution as an opportunity to revamp Nissan’s relationship with Renault. | Continue reading